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For Fortescue’s sake, the Forrests should clarify relationship plans

For Fortescue’s sake, the Forrests should clarify relationship plans

Andrew and Nicola could be forgiven for thinking this stuff is no one else’s business, but unfortunately, it is other peoples’ business. Big business.

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Peter Ker

Five reasons the Victorian election will be closer than you think

Five reasons the Victorian election will be closer than you think

Commentators are projecting a Coalition majority. They may be right. But there are five reasons to keep the champagne corked and the popcorn within...

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Toby Ralph

Australia must host AI training to give teeth to Labor’s new regulator

Australia must host AI training to give teeth to Labor’s new regulator

A regulator can only regulate models it can reach, and rules can only be enforced if companies have people, assets, and operations based onshore.

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Anna-Maria Arabia

Stop picking winners with capital gains tax

Stop picking winners with capital gains tax

A flat 40 per cent discount on non-property assets is far better for investment, risk-taking and productivity than indexation plus the Innovative...

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Allegra Spender

Jason Clare is using university failures to justify a power grab

Jason Clare is using university failures to justify a power grab

Reducing the university sector’s already eroded autonomy would turn them into government agencies – at the political whim of ministers and their...

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Stephen Matchett

Everything Jensen Huang said about China is out the window

Everything Jensen Huang said about China is out the window

The Nvidia CEO’s fall from grace seems so shocking partly because the honey-trap story feels so depressingly low-tech.

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Catherine Thorbecke

Jensen Huang’s love life could throw the global chip trade into chaos

Jensen Huang’s love life could throw the global chip trade into chaos

The Nvidia boss has been something of a “Trump-whisperer” on US export controls, advocating to sell chips to China to keep it hooked on the US...

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Olivia Shen

I’m set to profit from Labor’s tax changes, but I plan to fight them

I’m set to profit from Labor’s tax changes, but I plan to fight them

I believe young Australians will reject these taxes once they understand what they mean for their ability to invest, build businesses and get ahead.

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Geoff Wilson

Wilson can win Victoria but can she fix it?

Wilson can win Victoria but can she fix it?

With victory seemingly in sight, Wilson could be forgiven for believing a small-target strategy is enough to carry the Coalition across the line.

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The Afr View

AI is an inflation problem, but that’s not a reason to stop it

AI is an inflation problem, but that’s not a reason to stop it

To limit the inflationary and interest rate impact, governments should be cutting unproductive spending to make space for the private sector’s AI...

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John Kehoe

This shambolic board just deemed two directors not independent

This shambolic board just deemed two directors not independent

It’s an extraordinary chain of events at non-bank lender Humm and raises questions about whether the chaotic board can continue to function at all.

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Joyce Moullakis

From defeat to defiance: Trump won’t go down without a bloody fight

From defeat to defiance: Trump won’t go down without a bloody fight

The US president’s acceptance of last week’s midterms drubbing was a mirage. His elevation of Stephen Miller is the reshuffle version of a middle...

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Edward Luce

That ‘recession feeling’ is caused by Canberra and the RBA

That ‘recession feeling’ is caused by Canberra and the RBA

It’s the consequence of Labor’s fiscal and public policy mismanagement, enabled by an accommodating central bank. And blaming oil prices is just a...

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Dimitri Burshtein

My cultural review picked up whispers about ‘Sandpapergate’ cover-up

My cultural review picked up whispers about ‘Sandpapergate’ cover-up

All I can say is that if what Usman Khawaja alleges turns out to be true, then I was also lied to, writes Simon Longstaff.

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Simon Longstaff

Independent umpire needs to adjudicate on Sandpapergate

Independent umpire needs to adjudicate on Sandpapergate

As the cracks in the official version widen, it’s difficult to see how Cricket Australia can keep playing a straight bat to growing calls for an...

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The Afr View

Modern progressive antisemitism the respectable face of age-old tropes

Modern progressive antisemitism the respectable face of age-old tropes

It is most at home in the institutions that shape what we consider credible and acceptable: universities, media, arts organisations and human rights...

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Jillian Segal

COP31 won’t get global buy-in. Time to adapt to climate change

COP31 won’t get global buy-in. Time to adapt to climate change

Decarbonisation is a failure. The alternative is adaptation, which directly counters impacts of global warming by making humans’ physical...

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Les Coleman

Australia braced for its own cockroach test in private credit

Australia braced for its own cockroach test in private credit

Many funds don’t provide sufficient information to investors about the underlying loan investments – which is good practice 101 – and...

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Joyce Moullakis

Albanese’s economic strategy is just as flawed as Donald Trump’s

Albanese’s economic strategy is just as flawed as Donald Trump’s

If there’s an American politics analog to the Prime Minister’s premature boast about taming inflation, it’s President George W. Bush 2003...

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Richard Holden

A 60pc CGT discount and taxing gains at death make a better tax bargain

A 60pc CGT discount and taxing gains at death make a better tax bargain

Labor should revive Paul Keating’s 1980s proposal to stop people sitting on assets until they are bequeathed to their children tax-free.

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Cathal Leslie

Snowy Hydro demonstrates Australia’s fatal infrastructure flaws

Snowy Hydro demonstrates Australia’s fatal infrastructure flaws

The way the giant project has unfolded is an ever-expanding stain on Australia’s record to deliver on its ambitions.

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Jennifer Hewett

Should managers’ pay be cut when AI replaces their staff?

Should managers’ pay be cut when AI replaces their staff?

I would have said that overseeing a robot team would be a cakewalk. But the more I have learnt about running a team of agents, the more I realise I...

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Pilita Clark

Australia wants to build big. It needs to learn how

Australia wants to build big. It needs to learn how

The failure by Snowy Hydro and the federal government to conduct proper due diligence symbolises Australia’s increasingly chequered infrastructure...

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The Afr View

AI’s loss from the US midterms could be Australia’s gain

AI’s loss from the US midterms could be Australia’s gain

This is potentially a monumental opportunity, should politicians and voters decide that we want large-scale data centres on our shores, with the right...

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Rohan Silva

MAGA is not dead. Republican voters didn’t turn out at midterms

MAGA is not dead. Republican voters didn’t turn out at midterms

That is precisely why Democrats should resist reading Tuesday’s result as a major electoral realignment or even repudiation of Donald Trump.

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Philip Dalidakis

Today’s energy transition was built for a world of cheap money

Today’s energy transition was built for a world of cheap money

It won’t win Chris Bowen standing ovations at COP, but he is better off tempering his climate crusade and being realistic about the energy...

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Anjali Nadaradjane

Keep coal firing and start up nuclear to power data centres

Keep coal firing and start up nuclear to power data centres

The prime minister’s principle that server facilities should fund their own electricity supply is sound, but his focus on one source is misguided.

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Bridget McKenzie

Macquarie is stockpiling capital. Has it found an acquisition target?

Macquarie is stockpiling capital. Has it found an acquisition target?

Measures taken by the group, which has form in downturns, suggest new boss Greg Ward may want optionality should a large opportunity present itself.

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Joyce Moullakis

Rates up, Labor down, can the Libs steal the crown?

Rates up, Labor down, can the Libs steal the crown?

Will voters turn away from the government and One Nation in search for economic stability, as they are doing in Victoria?

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Phillip Coorey

Coalition comeback at Labor’s cost-of-living expense

Coalition comeback at Labor’s cost-of-living expense

Time will tell whether One Nation’s grievance-based appeal remains an existential threat to the Liberal and National parties.

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The Afr View

Knife-edge Kiwi election shows National forgetting John Key’s lessons

Knife-edge Kiwi election shows National forgetting John Key’s lessons

The former prime minister sold centre-right reform as common sense. The National-led coalition government under Christopher Luxon has been far less...

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Roger Partridge

Netanyahu’s exit is what Israel needs to reset US ties after ‘blue wave’

Netanyahu’s exit is what Israel needs to reset US ties after ‘blue wave’

A new Israeli leader will have an easier time winning friends in the American political scene.

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Michael Easson

RBA officials were right to front-run the board

RBA officials were right to front-run the board

The central bank’s executive arguably had little choice, given what must have been deep fears that the board would override its recommendation to...

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Christopher Joye

The banks’ small business battlefield morphs into a dangerous war zone

The banks’ small business battlefield morphs into a dangerous war zone

While there’s no cause for alarm yet, credit quality will get worse from here. But it’s fortuitous that APRA conducted a sweeping review of...

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Joyce Moullakis

US midterms hold two warnings for Albanese

US midterms hold two warnings for Albanese

The Labor government should take stock as it confronts a declining primary vote, higher inflation and community backlash to AI data centres.

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The Afr View

Loss of trust threatens the RBA’s inflation target

Loss of trust threatens the RBA’s inflation target

The post-pandemic price breakout presents a big challenge to keeping the faith in Australia’s three-decade-old monetary policy framework put in...

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Michael Stutchbury

Government and business can help fight inflation by lifting productivity

Government and business can help fight inflation by lifting productivity

It is critical that Australia doesn’t allow the debate about reining in spending to come at the expense of efforts to enable sustainably faster...

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Simon Birmingham

Victorian election: Who won the week?

Victorian election: Who won the week?

Lidija Ivanovski says Victorian frustrations do not give Jess Wilson a free pass to take the reins, while Terry Barnes says the Coalition is lengths...

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Terry Barnes

The Democrats have won. But what do they stand for?

The Democrats have won. But what do they stand for?

The midterms elections signalled a dramatic sea change in American politics. What does that mean now for the United States – and the world?

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Jennifer Hewett

Peak satire as Indonesia’s economy goes into the deep-fryer

Peak satire as Indonesia’s economy goes into the deep-fryer

The country’s currency has collapsed into unchartered territory, and while holidays to Bali are getting cheaper, the bigger picture is not good for...

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Peter Ker

There are midterm losses. Then there’s the 2026 Trump blowout

There are midterm losses. Then there’s the 2026 Trump blowout

The Republicans’ defeat this year most closely resembles the landslide defeat for the party in 2006 under leader George W. Bush.

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John B. Judis

Problem with PM’s golf club grant is Canberra has too much money

Problem with PM’s golf club grant is Canberra has too much money

Too much easy money at the federal level leads to wasteful spending. Too little money at the state level leads to excessive reliance on inefficient...

06.11.2026 20

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Sinclair Davidson

It’s the cost of living, stupid. And not even Trump is immune

It’s the cost of living, stupid. And not even Trump is immune

In the aftermath of the Republican rout in the US midterm elections, it’s Labor that should be most concerned.

06.11.2026 20

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Phillip Coorey

RBA tensions are a feature, not a bug

RBA tensions are a feature, not a bug

There was always a risk that encouraging board members to be candid in their views would send mixed messages

06.11.2026 20

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The Afr View

America’s Trump slapdown is the beginning of the end

America’s Trump slapdown is the beginning of the end

In multiple midterm races, the president’s heavy-handed input has backfired, as the United States seems finally to have fallen out of his spell.

05.11.2026 20

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Edward Luce

Americans woke up to the reality that Trump is only in it for himself

Americans woke up to the reality that Trump is only in it for himself

The US president has been exposed as someone who is unfamiliar with the plight of ordinary citizens, and this has cost the Republican Party dearly.

05.11.2026 20

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Jessica Gardner

Investors shouldn’t throw equity baby out with midterm bathwater

Investors shouldn’t throw equity baby out with midterm bathwater

There is a credible argument that, while the occasional setback on Wall Street is inevitable, what we are seeing in the AI and tech space is a secular...

05.11.2026 20

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Stephen Miller

Labor’s economic model is broken and households are paying the bill

Labor’s economic model is broken and households are paying the bill

The Albanese government needs a circuit breaker, but it can’t change course from its broken economic model because to do so would be an admission of...

05.11.2026 20

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John Kehoe

Can Jess Wilson fix Victoria’s budget? Not without bigger cuts

Can Jess Wilson fix Victoria’s budget? Not without bigger cuts

If the Coalition truly intends to fix the mess, it’s incumbent on them to come clean with the people of Victoria as to how they’re going to do it.

05.11.2026 20

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Saul Eslake

The great retail reckoning is here – and it’s just getting started

The great retail reckoning is here – and it’s just getting started

The fallout will ripple through the economy as players shut stores, are picked off by opportunistic buyers or decide it’s too difficult to keep...

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Joyce Moullakis